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Vision-Mission-Product (VMP) statements for progressive-green, worker-owned orgs and groups
Bruce Dickson writes, “Because coherent VMP statements come out of a group consensus process of some kind...
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Campaign strategy as a house
Strategy as a House is a basic mud map to help you and your team develop a campaign strategy....
Across-the-Board Contradictions: Re-aligning foundation trustees to incentivize learning
advocacy evaluation learning organisations philanthropy theories of change
Tanya Beer writes: “One of the things that routinely gets in the way of foundations having a...
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Official Channels
Official channels are things like grievance procedures, ombudsmen and courts. They are supposed to resolve problems and...
Testimonials
Marge Piercy, ‘The Low Road’
What is a social movement? It goes on one day at a time. It starts when you care to act. It starts when you do it again after they say no. It starts when you say 'we' and know what you mean. And each day you mean one more.
The Change Agency
2014-03-30T08:08:54+11:00
https://www.thechangeagency.org/testimonials/marge-piercy-the-low-road/
Cesar Chavez
Nonviolence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or the weak... Nonviolence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice. It is the patience to win.
The Change Agency
2014-03-30T08:37:27+11:00
https://www.thechangeagency.org/testimonials/cesar-chavez/

Saul Alinsky on self-interest
In the world as it is, man moves primarily because of self-interest. Organizing should target winnable, immediate, concrete changes.
The Change Agency
2016-10-02T09:55:58+11:00

https://www.thechangeagency.org/testimonials/saul-alinsky-on-self-interest/
Marianne Williamson
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be?
The Change Agency
2014-03-30T08:12:51+11:00
https://www.thechangeagency.org/testimonials/nelson-mandela/
Francesca Cancian, 1993
Activist research 'aims at challenging inequality by empowering the powerless, exposing inequalities in the status quo and promoting social changes that equalise the distribution of resources.'
The Change Agency
2014-03-30T08:38:50+11:00
https://www.thechangeagency.org/testimonials/francesca-cancian-1993/
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